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Previously on Riverdale:
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The first time any of us heard
of Gryphons and Gargoyles
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was from your mother.
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Ben and Dilton kill themselves,
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all to appease some creature
called the Gargoyle King.
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Toxicology report revealed lethal levels
of cyanide in Mr. Doiley's blood.
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There's something familiar about this.
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We made a vow.
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The secret we buried
all those years ago.
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Made a pact to
never revisit that.
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- Do you have a player's manual?
- Flip for your fate.
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- Promise to give me the scripture?
- Promise.
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- Salut.
- You been playing the game?
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- No.
- Don't lie to me, boy.
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I see the blue on your lips.
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No one will play, but that book
may be our best shot at figuring out
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- what happened to Dilton and Ben.
- Our children are in danger.
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- Where'd you get this?
- My locker.
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Same with everyone else.
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A deadly mutating virus
had been introduced
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to the ecosystem of Riverdale,
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and it was spreading like an epidemic.
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For every manual confiscated,
two popped up in its place.
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And the ever-resourceful students
of Riverdale High
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were playing it everywhere.
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Why? Because for us,
the game was an escape
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from our nightmarish reality,
a fantasyland at our fingertips.
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But for our parents,
it was a death-dealing nightmare.
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Two students have taken their lives.
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A third tried. The common
thread linking these tragedies:
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all three victims were playing the game
known as Gryphons and Gargoyles.
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You're admitting
the game killed Dilton and Ben?
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Yes, Mr. Jones.
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But where did G&G come from?
Where did Ben and Dilton even get it?
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We still don't have many answers,
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but from the little that we know
about it the game seems targeted
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at impressionable developing minds.
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Namely, teens like yourselves.
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Challenge accepted.
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Respect to the dead,
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but some among our flock are shepherds,
not sheep.
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The game's quests
and role-playing scenarios
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are specifically designed
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to foster delusion, paranoia,
and ultimately violence.
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As mayor, I'm officially banning
Gryphons and Gargoyles.
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Mrs. Burble is gonna be holding
extended office hours,
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and I've set up a
24-hour crisis hotline,
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overseen by Kevin Keller.
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FYI, I am only there after school.
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As a parent, I'm imploring you.
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Take care of yourselves. And
stay away from this game.
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Newsflash, Mom,
banning something
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only makes it more interesting.
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Thank you.
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And now this stupid game is literally
all anyone is talking about.
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You're not playing, are you, Vee?
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Bee, you don't make Fibes 20 Under 20
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by prancing around the woods
in a deer carcass.
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- Are you and Jughead playing?
- No.
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We're trying to find out why my mom
and his dad were so triggered
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by us having the manuals.
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- Hello?
- Ms. Cooper, this is Dr. Curdle Junior.
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Are you alone?
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Hi, Dr. Curdle.
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Yes. Have you had any luck?
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Per your request, I did some
digging in the morgue archives.
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I found something I think
you'll be interested in.
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Dr. Curdle Junior told me and Jughead
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that the circumstances
of Dilton Doiley's suicide
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felt oddly familiar to him.
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That file is why.
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A case from when his dad was coroner.
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I am right in the middle
of my affirmations.
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Trust me, you'll wanna look at this.
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Per your Farm "testimony,"
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you've clearly played G&G before.
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Now I have concrete evidence
that when you were my age
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there was another suspicious death,
maybe a murder,
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that took place at Riverdale High
where the corpse had blue lips.
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I can keep digging or you can just
tell me what you know about G&G.
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All right.
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Wait, really?
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You're right, Betty.
You deserve to know the whole truth.
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If for no other reason,
for your own protection.
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It was our junior year.
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Phones had cords, Winona had Johnny,
and everything smelled like teen spirit.
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The world was a different place,
and we were very different people.
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Back then, I was Alice Smith,
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a bad girl from the wrong side
of the tracks
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with enviable hair,
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no real friends...
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Please no, please no, please no.
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...and one huge problem.
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Damn it.
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Everything okay?
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Mind your own business, Hermione.
Shouldn't you be in a church?
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Oh, crap, girl. Are you...?
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It's probably a false positive.
It happens all the time.
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Like three percent of the time.
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No one's talking to you, Sierra.
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What am I gonna do?
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I tried to talk to him. He blew me off,
for some Vixen he's screwing.
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Classic FP Jones.
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- FP Jones?
- FP Jones?
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Well, well, well.
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I thought I heard a party in here.
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Hall passes, ladies.
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It's up your ass, Penelope.
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Classy as always, Alice Smith.
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Just curious,
were you born with that mouth,
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or is it something Southside mothers
teach their bastard babies?
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You trashy bitch.
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Oh, no. No, no, no.
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- Hey.
- Yeah.
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Get off.
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Hey.
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Come on, FP.
It's Bulldog tradition.
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Streak, streak, streak.
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- Streak, streak, streak.
- My arm's in a cast, Mantle.
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- Streak, streak, streak.
- Doesn't matter.
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- Streak, streak, streak.
- Streak.
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- Streak, streak, streak.
- Streak.
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Marty, I'm not doing it.
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Streak, streak, streak.
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I'll go with you.
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Freddie Andrews.
Why? You're not even on our team.
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No, but the baseball team got me
to streak last year
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and it got me serious cred
with the ladies.
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Run fast enough,
and all they'll see is a blur.
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Streak, streak, streak...
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We were invincible.
Or at least we thought we were.
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That little stunt landed FP and Fred
in hot water.
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Welcome... to Saturday detention.
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Gathered in that classroom,
we were strangers more than friends.
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And none of us could've guessed that
our lives were about to change forever.
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It was just supposed
to be one Saturday.
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Eight hours, six people,
with seemingly nothing in common.
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The bad girl.
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- Alice Smith?
- The rebelling Catholic.
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Hermione Gomez?
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- The teacher's pet.
- Penelope Blossom?
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- The artist athlete.
- Fred Andrews?
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The political animal.
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Sierra Samuels?
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- And the ladies' man.
- Forsythe Pendleton Jones, Jr.
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Forsythe Pendleton Jones, Jr.
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He was the BMOC, an
all-American athlete,
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a stud muffin, as we used to say.
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He was different back then, Betty.
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Trying to be something other than
what he was, but still trouble.
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I was as tough as nails,
but around FP, Silly Putty.
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Even in detention,
with a secret growing inside me...
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I hated him...
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but I wanted him.
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Okay, okay, Mom. I get it.
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While you're here today,
you will not talk.
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You will not play.
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You will not move.
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You don't even breathe.
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Yes.
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What if we have to pee?
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You hold it, Ms. Samuels.
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And at the end of the day,
you will deliver a 1000-word essay
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as to why you're here today.
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I will be right down the hall,
in my office, all day long.
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'Cause I have nothing better to do.
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Dude, can you not?
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Dude, can you bite me?
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Oh, my God.
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Sierra.
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Sit. We'll get in trouble.
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Tommy.
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Brought you some sustenance.
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- Thank you.
- I love you.
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- I'll see you tonight, okay?
- Okay.
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Sierra.
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You and Tom Keller?
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Guys, we've been going
to the same school since kindergarten.
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How do we not know anything
about each other?
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We're not friends.
Cliques don't cross-pollinate.
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Haven't you seen Heathers?
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Well, we've got six
more hours to kill,
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and no one to impress.
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How about a round of Secrets and Sins?
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Tommy and I have been secretly dating
for a few months now.
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Why secretly?
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Our parents don't want
their children dating someone so...
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different.
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To use their euphemism of choice.
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My mom's all up in my
relationships, too.
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- You know Hiram Lodge?
- Yes.
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- Dude is ripped.
- And a petty criminal.
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He's a self-starter
who provides for his family.
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To my mom, he's a scrub.
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"That's the way
to the American Dream, mija."
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What dream?
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She cleans hotel rooms
in that stupid Five Seasons,
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16 hours a day.
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Hiram's got the right idea.
Get out of Riverdale.
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- No matter what you have to do.
- Yeah. Except...
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Riverdale's not the problem.
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Me? I wanna stay here my whole life.
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That how long it'll take you
to decide between music or baseball?
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Our minor league is solid.
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And we're close enough to the city
to play music gigs.
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This town's got it all.
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Could even run for mayor one day.
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Nightmare job.
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Why not shoot for something bigger?
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You can do all those things
in a real metropolis.
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Except look after my dad.
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He's sick. Real sick.
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And he took care of me my whole life,
so, now it's my turn.
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Alice, you're up.
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What's your deepest, darkest secret?
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Skip her.
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Tell them about the time you lit
a dumpster on fire on the Southside.
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Why don't you tell them that you
actually live in Sunnyside Trailer Park?
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- I thought you lived on Elm Street.
- Yeah.
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Of course. Because it's
what Forsythe wants you to believe.
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You parade around the school in your
varsity jacket like a Northsider.
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Don't kid yourself.
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You'll never escape the Southside.
You're gonna end up just like your dad.
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Downing six-packs in your double-wide.
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Maybe, but I'm not gonna hit my kid.
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Not like my old man hits me.
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I told him I didn't wanna join his gang.
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That I wanted to be the first Jones
to go to college.
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He didn't like that.
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Okay. Guess that just leaves me.
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Fair is fair.
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The Blossoms.
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They're... terrible people.
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But, Penelope, you're a Blossom.
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No, I'm not.
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Not really.
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I grew up
at Sisters of Quiet Mercy orphanage.
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Oh, my God, Penelope.
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That place has,
like, violated every humanitarian code.
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When I was eight,
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the Blossoms came and asked
to see all the red-headed children.
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The next thing I knew,
I was leaving with them.
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I was so excited.
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I very quickly realized
this was not an altruistic adoption.
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I was being groomed.
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To first be Clifford's sister.
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Then, eventually, his life companion.
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Every second away from that house,
even today, is a relief.
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Why are you still living there?
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00:13:57,545 --> 00:13:58,754
They're my family.
251
00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:01,090
That's not family.
It's basically incest.
252
00:14:01,173 --> 00:14:02,216
It's disgusting.
253
00:14:02,299 --> 00:14:05,177
At least I'm not cleaning
people's toilets like your mom.
254
00:14:06,512 --> 00:14:07,972
Well, at least she has class.
255
00:14:08,389 --> 00:14:11,851
She's not stealing child brides
out of orphanages.
256
00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:14,478
- Here we go again.
- Hey, hey, hey.
257
00:14:14,562 --> 00:14:15,563
- Hey.
- Just...
258
00:14:15,646 --> 00:14:17,982
- Hey. Hey. Stop it.
- Hey.
259
00:14:19,984 --> 00:14:20,985
Congratulations.
260
00:14:22,152 --> 00:14:26,156
You all just upped your sentence
from one Saturday detention to four.
261
00:14:29,118 --> 00:14:31,161
We were angry, of course.
262
00:14:31,245 --> 00:14:33,163
At each other, at ourselves.
263
00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:38,586
But little by little, hour by hour,
264
00:14:38,961 --> 00:14:42,423
the walls we'd hidden behind all
our lives started breaking down.
265
00:14:44,341 --> 00:14:47,052
As pudding cups
and sandwiches were shared...
266
00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:50,931
the bravado fell away.
267
00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,228
And a group of misfits
became unlikely friends.
268
00:15:00,316 --> 00:15:02,735
And then there was
that rainy Saturday afternoon.
269
00:15:02,818 --> 00:15:04,528
The first cold rain of the season.
270
00:15:05,654 --> 00:15:08,699
When I got it into my head
to add the rest of the group's initials
271
00:15:08,782 --> 00:15:10,743
to the windowsill, carved next to mine.
272
00:15:14,496 --> 00:15:18,042
And Hermione decided
to break into Mrs. Crabapple's drawer.
273
00:15:18,709 --> 00:15:19,877
What are you doing?
274
00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,087
Yesterday Mrs. Crabapple
took my Game Lad,
275
00:15:22,171 --> 00:15:24,632
and locked it up in here,
so, I'm getting it back.
276
00:15:25,507 --> 00:15:27,343
That's vandalism.
277
00:15:29,136 --> 00:15:29,970
Yeah.
278
00:15:31,889 --> 00:15:33,724
Holy crap.
279
00:15:34,350 --> 00:15:37,394
Crabapple's been hoarding our stuff
for decades.
280
00:15:40,105 --> 00:15:41,357
And there it was.
281
00:15:41,899 --> 00:15:44,099
Gryphons and Gargoyles. I've
heard of this game before.
282
00:15:48,697 --> 00:15:50,950
We shouldn't play it.
It doesn't belong to us.
283
00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,161
Gryphons and Gargoyles.
284
00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:58,540
- Thought this was an urban legend.
- I heard kids play at Seaside.
285
00:15:58,624 --> 00:16:01,168
I heard one of them had a heart attack
and died.
286
00:16:01,251 --> 00:16:05,714
In that case...
we definitely have to play it, right?
287
00:16:16,266 --> 00:16:19,853
"An ancient evil, long
forgotten to this world, has awoken.
288
00:16:20,479 --> 00:16:22,731
His name? The Gargoyle King.
289
00:16:23,190 --> 00:16:25,776
Defeat him,
and receive the supreme reward."
290
00:16:25,859 --> 00:16:27,111
Okay, how do we beat him?
291
00:16:27,861 --> 00:16:33,867
It looks like the person with the
manual, me, is the Game Master.
292
00:16:33,951 --> 00:16:36,829
I'll guide you through quests,
and you complete them,
293
00:16:36,912 --> 00:16:39,456
until you "ascend to the next level."
294
00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:41,125
But first pick your characters.
295
00:16:42,209 --> 00:16:44,086
I pick the Sorceress.
296
00:16:44,837 --> 00:16:46,922
Maybe I can make all
you nerds disappear.
297
00:16:48,716 --> 00:16:49,925
I pick the Thief.
298
00:16:50,634 --> 00:16:53,220
I've always wanted
to be free of moral reasoning.
299
00:16:53,303 --> 00:16:57,474
Well, as the voice of the people,
I choose the Siren.
300
00:16:59,727 --> 00:17:00,561
Deadeye. Sick.
301
00:17:02,396 --> 00:17:04,565
Fred, we all know
you're the Radiant Knight.
302
00:17:09,570 --> 00:17:13,407
"Clinging to the ideals of hope,
justice, and righteousness."
303
00:17:14,491 --> 00:17:15,826
I don't know, seems kind of...
304
00:17:15,909 --> 00:17:17,161
- Perfect for you.
- Boring.
305
00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:21,415
Now pay attention.
306
00:17:22,624 --> 00:17:25,127
"Welcome, brave
adventurers, to Eldervair,
307
00:17:25,753 --> 00:17:27,838
realm of Gryphons and Gargoyles."
308
00:17:28,589 --> 00:17:30,507
Lady Smith, please, pick a quest card.
309
00:17:35,763 --> 00:17:37,765
"Free the souls of the undead."
310
00:17:38,974 --> 00:17:42,102
"You are standing
at the top of Necromancer's Alley."
311
00:17:45,981 --> 00:17:49,026
That's how it begins, Betty.
The maddening obsession.
312
00:17:49,693 --> 00:17:51,487
With the roll of a dice.
313
00:17:52,112 --> 00:17:54,198
"You approach a well
at the center of Arcana Maze.
314
00:17:54,281 --> 00:17:56,617
The hedges grow behind you,
sealing off the exit."
315
00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:58,285
I'm gonna toss my Gildite Coin.
316
00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:00,579
Please, be heads.
317
00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:04,541
"A geyser bursts,
depositing the scroll in your hand."
318
00:18:04,625 --> 00:18:06,585
Nicely done, Squire Pendleton.
319
00:18:07,419 --> 00:18:10,005
- Is it too late to start another round?
- Not at all.
320
00:18:10,172 --> 00:18:12,299
Might I suggest we kick
things up a notch?
321
00:18:12,382 --> 00:18:14,551
- Take the game off-board.
- Run around school
322
00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:17,046
- with Featherhead down the hall?
- He takes a nap after lunch.
323
00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:18,097
I'm in.
324
00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:20,015
Trust me, you will love it.
325
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:23,310
There's this quest, The Wedding
Stone, that requires pairs.
326
00:18:32,236 --> 00:18:33,862
So, Squire Pendleton,
327
00:18:33,946 --> 00:18:34,905
Madam H.
328
00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:37,116
Sir Frederick, Lady Smith.
329
00:18:38,867 --> 00:18:40,911
I hid a gemstone from Thornhill
in this building.
330
00:18:40,994 --> 00:18:43,956
First pair to find it
and show it to Sierra gets to keep it.
331
00:18:52,589 --> 00:18:55,107
Looks like it's just you
and me for a bit, Sierra.
332
00:18:55,158 --> 00:18:56,935
Shall we pillage
the cafeteria?
333
00:18:58,178 --> 00:19:00,806
Why those specific pairings, Penelope?
334
00:19:01,723 --> 00:19:03,475
Did the Gargoyle King make you do it?
335
00:19:03,934 --> 00:19:08,814
I guess...
I'm just in the mood for a little chaos.
336
00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:12,359
- How do we know if we're even close?
- We let our love guide us.
337
00:19:15,946 --> 00:19:17,698
Yeah. Or the Gargoyle King.
338
00:19:21,201 --> 00:19:22,244
Hey.
339
00:19:23,829 --> 00:19:24,663
Come on.
340
00:19:24,746 --> 00:19:26,081
- Ready?
- Yeah.
341
00:19:31,295 --> 00:19:32,129
Okay.
342
00:19:36,133 --> 00:19:36,967
Yes! Milady.
343
00:19:44,766 --> 00:19:46,727
I was thinking of asking you something.
344
00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:55,235
What the hell, Hermione?
345
00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:57,196
You were gonna kiss me.
346
00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:58,113
No. I wasn't.
347
00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:02,034
This is a role-playing game.
348
00:20:03,452 --> 00:20:05,370
I'm not actually into you, FP.
349
00:20:06,121 --> 00:20:07,873
Alice, are you okay? You look...
350
00:20:08,498 --> 00:20:09,333
Here, sit down.
351
00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:14,046
Hey, you can talk to me.
352
00:20:14,338 --> 00:20:15,505
Alice, what's up?
353
00:20:17,299 --> 00:20:18,133
I'm... lost.
354
00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:31,730
I wake up every morning,
wanting to escape my life...
355
00:20:33,649 --> 00:20:34,942
and my mistakes.
356
00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:36,860
And when I'm here, I do.
357
00:20:37,569 --> 00:20:38,654
And I'm happy.
358
00:20:39,821 --> 00:20:41,240
And when the game's over...
359
00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:44,243
I'm me again.
360
00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:48,705
- God, that sounds pathetic.
- No, no.
361
00:20:49,998 --> 00:20:50,999
It doesn't.
362
00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:52,376
So, FP.
363
00:20:53,168 --> 00:20:55,545
What exactly went down
with you and Alice?
364
00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:57,339
Nothing serious.
365
00:20:58,298 --> 00:21:00,676
Just messing around,
which she was cool with.
366
00:21:02,511 --> 00:21:04,137
But the more we've been playing,
367
00:21:04,221 --> 00:21:06,473
the more I've been thinking,
it could be more.
368
00:21:07,307 --> 00:21:08,350
You should talk to her.
369
00:21:09,309 --> 00:21:10,143
For real.
370
00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:13,522
Take a shot.
You're the Deadeye, after all.
371
00:21:13,605 --> 00:21:14,690
I love my dad.
372
00:21:16,024 --> 00:21:17,943
And I hate seeing him in pain.
373
00:21:18,026 --> 00:21:19,546
Sometimes I... I just can't handle it.
374
00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:26,535
But Sir Frederick doesn't
have a sick dad.
375
00:21:27,452 --> 00:21:29,746
So, I pretend that I'm
here with you guys.
376
00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:31,790
And I'm... free again.
377
00:21:44,386 --> 00:21:45,429
Wait, wait, wait.
378
00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:47,264
You and Fred Andrews?
379
00:21:47,681 --> 00:21:48,932
We were lonely, Betty.
380
00:21:49,099 --> 00:21:52,060
We were young, attractive,
in the same room.
381
00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:55,522
It was just once,
a brief flame between two people,
382
00:21:56,189 --> 00:21:58,692
that existed in that one moment.
383
00:21:58,775 --> 00:22:00,027
But in the Blue and Gold?
384
00:22:01,737 --> 00:22:03,196
We played for weeks.
385
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,492
Sneaking into school, late at night,
getting deeper and deeper.
386
00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:11,079
♪ I know when to go out ♪
387
00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:13,540
♪ And when to stay in ♪
388
00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:16,376
♪ Get things done ♪
389
00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:21,631
And we dubbed
ourselves the Midnight Club.
390
00:22:22,883 --> 00:22:25,218
♪ But things don't really change ♪
391
00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:27,804
♪ I'm standing in the wind ♪
392
00:22:28,513 --> 00:22:29,973
We abandoned the board,
393
00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:32,768
acting out our quests and adventures
in the real world,
394
00:22:32,851 --> 00:22:33,977
playing characters.
395
00:22:34,061 --> 00:22:35,812
♪ But I try ♪
396
00:22:37,272 --> 00:22:38,523
♪ I try ♪
397
00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:46,490
♪ There's no sign of life ♪
398
00:22:46,948 --> 00:22:49,284
♪ It's just the power to charm
♪ ♪ I'm lying in the rain ♪
399
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,456
♪ But I never wave bye-bye ♪
400
00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:58,043
Some of us became
a little more inseparable than others.
401
00:22:58,126 --> 00:22:59,753
♪ But I try ♪
402
00:23:01,129 --> 00:23:02,464
♪ I try ♪
403
00:23:03,131 --> 00:23:04,132
Wait, wait...
404
00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,011
What was that? You guys hear that?
405
00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,937
Surrender.
406
00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:18,939
- Hermione?
- Hiram?
407
00:23:19,022 --> 00:23:20,190
- Sierra?
- Tommy?
408
00:23:21,775 --> 00:23:23,902
Are you playing G&G, too?
409
00:23:23,985 --> 00:23:25,987
We had thought we were special.
410
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:28,782
- Have been for about a week now.
- Daryl Doiley found it
411
00:23:28,865 --> 00:23:30,532
in the restricted
section of the library.
412
00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:32,119
Relinquish your
Game Master duties.
413
00:23:32,202 --> 00:23:33,203
Make me, heathen.
414
00:23:33,912 --> 00:23:36,665
We joined forces,
started playing a bigger game.
415
00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:40,335
The line between Gryphons and Gargoyles
416
00:23:40,419 --> 00:23:42,295
and real life became blurred.
417
00:23:42,504 --> 00:23:43,505
In a dangerous way.
418
00:23:43,588 --> 00:23:46,550
We found these strange invitations
in our lockers.
419
00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:50,429
"Members of the Midnight Club,
come to the Detention Room tonight."
420
00:23:52,013 --> 00:23:53,723
"Rise to the challenge."
421
00:23:56,810 --> 00:23:59,771
"And ascend to the next level
of the game."
422
00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:01,690
Hell, yeah.
423
00:24:01,773 --> 00:24:04,192
"Eagerly yours, the Gargoyle King."
424
00:24:04,985 --> 00:24:07,237
Welcome to
the Ascension Party.
425
00:24:09,072 --> 00:24:10,449
"Find the chalices.
426
00:24:10,740 --> 00:24:12,617
Flip the Gryphon coin for your fate.
427
00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:14,870
Drink from the chalice,
428
00:24:15,328 --> 00:24:17,664
and meet your destiny.
429
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,252
The successful among you will ascend
to the third level."
430
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:23,753
Sounds simple enough.
431
00:24:24,504 --> 00:24:25,797
Not much of a party.
432
00:24:26,423 --> 00:24:28,592
So, why don't we make it one?
433
00:24:28,675 --> 00:24:29,676
What's that, Hiram?
434
00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:37,601
Fizzle Rocks. They're new.
435
00:24:37,684 --> 00:24:38,894
Just hit the streets.
436
00:24:40,812 --> 00:24:43,773
I was pregnant with your
brother. I didn't take any.
437
00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:47,027
But to this day,
I wonder what was in those drugs.
438
00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:54,201
Maybe whatever turned us into monsters.
439
00:24:55,827 --> 00:24:58,663
Kudos on the whole Ascension
Party thing. Very rad.
440
00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:02,918
Me? I thought you did all this.
It was set up when I got here.
441
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:10,091
Or maybe we'd been monsters all along.
442
00:25:13,553 --> 00:25:15,722
Ascension Night was frenzied
from the start.
443
00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:21,228
The festivities began
with an impromptu concert
444
00:25:21,311 --> 00:25:22,854
by the Fred Heads.
445
00:25:29,444 --> 00:25:34,199
♪ I lie awake
And dread the lonely nights ♪
446
00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:37,536
♪ I'm not alone ♪
447
00:25:38,286 --> 00:25:43,166
♪ I wonder if these heavy eyes
Can face the unknown ♪
448
00:25:45,794 --> 00:25:51,132
♪ When I close my eyes I realize ♪
449
00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:54,135
♪ You'll come my way ♪
450
00:25:54,678 --> 00:25:58,098
♪ I'm standing in the night alone ♪
451
00:25:58,598 --> 00:26:04,980
♪ Forever together ♪
452
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:10,735
♪ Oh, we're the dream warriors ♪
453
00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:14,447
♪ Maybe tonight you'll be gone ♪
454
00:26:14,864 --> 00:26:18,952
♪ We're dream warriors ♪
455
00:26:19,494 --> 00:26:22,539
♪ Ain't gonna dream no more ♪
456
00:26:23,331 --> 00:26:25,166
♪ And maybe tonight ♪
457
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:29,212
♪ Maybe tonight you'll be gone ♪
458
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,175
That night,
our dark doppelgangers were released,
459
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:36,177
and we all went a little bit insane.
460
00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:39,389
High on Fizzle Rocks,
and the very game itself.
461
00:26:57,449 --> 00:27:03,163
♪ We're the dream warriors ♪
462
00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:41,803
Principal Featherhead
must've learned of our trespassing,
463
00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:43,012
and was investigating.
464
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:47,684
God help me, Betty,
I could've said something. Stopped him.
465
00:28:47,934 --> 00:28:51,980
I could've prevented what came next.
But instead I just left.
466
00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,733
I spent the night
calling the Midnight Club.
467
00:28:55,358 --> 00:28:56,234
No one picked up.
468
00:29:00,113 --> 00:29:02,824
They must've been caught, or expelled.
469
00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:04,492
Maybe even arrested.
470
00:29:07,328 --> 00:29:11,541
I went to Principal Featherhead's
office, maybe to confess,
471
00:29:11,624 --> 00:29:12,542
but...
472
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:15,295
- Hi. Is Principal Featherhead in?
- Not yet.
473
00:29:15,837 --> 00:29:18,214
He should be in later,
if you want an appointment.
474
00:29:19,632 --> 00:29:22,051
Are you okay, Alice?
Do you wanna see the nurse?
475
00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:24,012
No. Hermione.
476
00:29:30,226 --> 00:29:31,227
Thank God.
477
00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:34,689
I've... I've got this bad feeling.
478
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,399
Were things okay last night?
479
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:38,443
You didn't hear?
480
00:29:39,569 --> 00:29:40,569
I knew it. What happened?
481
00:29:42,071 --> 00:29:44,240
- FP was supposed to tell you.
- Tell me what?
482
00:29:46,826 --> 00:29:47,660
Fred's dad...
483
00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:55,001
He died while we were
at the Ascension Party last night.
484
00:29:56,878 --> 00:29:58,505
Fred found him when he got home.
485
00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:11,351
By the time Mr. Andrews'
funeral came around a few days later,
486
00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:15,647
Principal Featherhead had been declared
officially missing.
487
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:21,110
And we were all waiting
for the other shoe to drop.
488
00:30:22,028 --> 00:30:24,708
It was a beautiful service, Fred.
I should've been there when he...
489
00:30:28,743 --> 00:30:30,954
You have to stop beating
yourself up, man.
490
00:30:31,204 --> 00:30:33,081
There's nothing you could've done.
491
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:34,916
- He was sick.
- And he died alone.
492
00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:37,418
Because I was high,
493
00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:40,964
running around school like an idiot,
with you guys.
494
00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:43,049
Fred.
495
00:30:43,883 --> 00:30:47,136
Look, between this
and Featherhead going MIA,
496
00:30:48,179 --> 00:30:49,681
we're all a little on edge.
497
00:30:50,056 --> 00:30:52,475
I saw him that night... at the school.
498
00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:55,854
During the Ascension Party,
I saw Featherhead.
499
00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,754
The next morning, he was gone.
Did anyone else run into him?
500
00:31:01,234 --> 00:31:02,819
Do we tell someone?
501
00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:07,866
You didn't... see... anything.
502
00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:09,868
- Penelope.
- Nobody did.
503
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:16,040
Want the finger pointed at us
because we happened to be doped up
504
00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:18,751
and trespassing
on the night Featherhead disappeared?
505
00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:22,547
We don't know what,
if anything, happened to him.
506
00:31:22,964 --> 00:31:24,799
And no one else knows we were there.
507
00:31:26,259 --> 00:31:27,802
So, we keep our mouths shut.
508
00:31:29,012 --> 00:31:29,846
Agreed? Agreed?
509
00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:39,564
The rumors spread like wildfire.
510
00:31:39,772 --> 00:31:42,650
Everyone had a theory about
what happened to Featherhead.
511
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:45,028
But no one guessed the gruesome truth,
512
00:31:45,111 --> 00:31:48,489
that Mr. Featherhead had been
right under our noses.
513
00:31:48,698 --> 00:31:50,867
And by the next week, it was impossible
514
00:31:50,950 --> 00:31:53,202
to ignore the flies and the smell.
515
00:32:14,974 --> 00:32:17,644
There was blue liquid in the chalices
when I saw them.
516
00:32:17,727 --> 00:32:19,604
Featherhead's corpse had blue lips.
517
00:32:19,687 --> 00:32:22,190
And the police said
he had poison in his system.
518
00:32:22,857 --> 00:32:26,027
- What did you guys do to him?
- What do you mean, what did we do?
519
00:32:27,153 --> 00:32:28,655
You were there, too, Alice.
520
00:32:28,738 --> 00:32:32,241
- And you're the only one that saw him.
- Because you guys were tripping.
521
00:32:32,325 --> 00:32:35,995
And who was even wearing that insane
Gargoyle King costume, anyway?
522
00:32:37,413 --> 00:32:40,291
What are you talking about?
We were in our normal outfits.
523
00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:42,126
And the chalices were empty.
524
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:45,421
The Lady Smith doth protest
a little too much, methinks.
525
00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:47,090
Yeah.
526
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,634
Pretty convenient that you left early.
527
00:32:50,551 --> 00:32:52,428
Tell us what you did to Featherhead.
528
00:32:53,304 --> 00:32:55,473
Wait. This is ridiculous.
529
00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:59,018
Fred, you're the Radiant Knight.
You always do the right thing.
530
00:32:59,394 --> 00:33:02,438
- You'll go to the cops with me?
- We're not telling the cops.
531
00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:06,192
Why suddenly such a rule-breaker,
Penelope? Because you killed him?
532
00:33:06,859 --> 00:33:09,862
And how would I have killed him?
With our magic chalices?
533
00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:13,449
Yeah. The goblets were full
when I went into the bathroom, okay?
534
00:33:13,783 --> 00:33:16,285
Maybe you poisoned them
when you set up the quest.
535
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:19,956
Except for I didn't set up the quest.
536
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:21,749
Neither did Daryl.
537
00:33:22,333 --> 00:33:24,460
We were as in the dark
as the rest of you.
538
00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:26,879
Guys,
the chalices were just sitting there.
539
00:33:27,338 --> 00:33:29,090
Any of us could've drank from them.
540
00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:31,592
So, whoever invited us
to the Ascension Party
541
00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:34,929
was trying to kill one or more of us.
542
00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:40,018
Then we have to destroy the game,
543
00:33:40,643 --> 00:33:42,437
so it can't be traced back to us.
544
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,396
The manuals.
545
00:33:43,479 --> 00:33:45,898
We destroy the manuals,
scatter everything else.
546
00:33:45,982 --> 00:33:48,901
I was outnumbered.
At least that's what I tell myself now.
547
00:33:48,985 --> 00:33:51,654
- I'll handle the dice.
- Left in a Monopoly box,
548
00:33:51,738 --> 00:33:53,906
forgotten among
the other mismatched pieces.
549
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:55,241
I've got the chalices.
550
00:33:55,324 --> 00:33:57,493
Nestled among other cups
in the trophy case.
551
00:33:57,577 --> 00:34:00,621
- I'll dispose of the manual.
- Thrown in Sweetwater River.
552
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:01,873
And I'll burn our copy.
553
00:34:01,956 --> 00:34:04,083
Right. Everyone, spit.
We're making a pact.
554
00:34:07,128 --> 00:34:10,256
From this moment on, no one talks
about Gryphons and Gargoyles.
555
00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:11,677
It's a secret. Forever.
556
00:34:14,594 --> 00:34:15,428
To the grave.
557
00:34:18,181 --> 00:34:19,265
To the grave.
558
00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:26,314
After playing G&G,
it was a return to reality.
559
00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:29,358
We went our separate ways, and...
560
00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:32,779
burdened by our guilt,
became different people.
561
00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:37,909
The wannabe rock star sold his guitar,
562
00:34:37,992 --> 00:34:40,411
and began breaking rocks
at his family business.
563
00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:42,872
♪ Welcome to your life ♪
564
00:34:43,873 --> 00:34:47,126
♪ There's no turning back ♪
565
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:51,923
The Catholic schoolgirl
went against her mother's wishes
566
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:54,717
and began a lifetime of compromises.
567
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:59,430
- Where did you get it?
- Don't you worry about that, mi amor.
568
00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:04,852
Romeo and Juliet
took their curtain call.
569
00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:06,187
Maybe when we're older...
570
00:35:08,397 --> 00:35:09,649
things will be different.
571
00:35:11,150 --> 00:35:13,270
I'll wait for you, Sierra.
I hope you'll do the same.
572
00:35:22,328 --> 00:35:24,580
The game master became the pawn.
573
00:35:25,581 --> 00:35:28,251
I wanna live in Thornhill,
forever and ever, Clifford.
574
00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:31,712
The world outside is...
575
00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:34,423
It's too dangerous.
576
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:41,222
The high-school MVP
became a greaser gang member.
577
00:35:41,681 --> 00:35:46,686
♪ Everybody wants to rule the world ♪
578
00:35:46,769 --> 00:35:50,523
♪ There's a room
Where the light won't find you ♪
579
00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:55,361
♪ Holding hands while the walls
Come tumbling down ♪
580
00:35:55,444 --> 00:35:57,655
♪ When they do, I'll
be right behind... ♪
581
00:35:57,738 --> 00:36:01,367
The biker girl traded
her leathers for a big lie.
582
00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:03,202
♪ ...we've almost made it ♪
583
00:36:03,828 --> 00:36:07,123
♪ So sad they had to fade it ♪
584
00:36:07,373 --> 00:36:09,208
♪ Everybody... ♪
585
00:36:09,375 --> 00:36:10,751
Hey, there, Hal Cooper.
586
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:15,339
Any chance you're free
for a malt at Pop's?
587
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:21,179
When the Midnight Club
passed each other in the halls,
588
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:22,763
we didn't so much as smile.
589
00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:24,390
♪ ...and for pleasure ♪
590
00:36:24,473 --> 00:36:28,644
♪ Nothing ever lasts forever ♪
591
00:36:28,728 --> 00:36:32,690
♪ Everybody wants to rule... ♪
592
00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:35,359
We'd become strangers again.
593
00:36:42,408 --> 00:36:43,242
Okay.
594
00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:45,203
But...
595
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:49,707
Wait, if Principal Featherhead died
because he drank from a poisoned chalice,
596
00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:51,584
then who poisoned the cups?
597
00:36:51,667 --> 00:36:52,710
I don't know.
598
00:36:53,669 --> 00:36:57,506
His death was ruled a suicide,
under suspicious circumstances.
599
00:36:58,299 --> 00:37:00,009
And we never spoke about it,
600
00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:02,845
because it must've been a member
of the Midnight Club.
601
00:37:02,929 --> 00:37:03,930
The unthinkable.
602
00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:06,307
One of us was a murderer.
603
00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:09,310
But how did they know
that Featherhead would show up,
604
00:37:09,393 --> 00:37:11,145
and that he'd drink from the cups?
605
00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:12,647
That's what's so terrifying.
606
00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:15,524
The killer couldn't have known.
607
00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:18,361
Which meant
whoever poisoned the cups meant
608
00:37:18,444 --> 00:37:20,404
for one of us to drink it
at the end of the quest.
609
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:24,533
So, Featherhead was
an unintentional casualty.
610
00:37:25,701 --> 00:37:26,786
I'm sorry, Mom.
611
00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:30,248
But if we're gonna figure out how
to stop what's happening now,
612
00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:32,500
I have a lot more questions.
613
00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:36,796
Elizabeth.
614
00:37:37,672 --> 00:37:38,839
When you play the game,
615
00:37:39,799 --> 00:37:41,175
the more you talk about it,
616
00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:43,636
the more you think of it,
617
00:37:44,762 --> 00:37:46,264
the more at risk you are.
618
00:37:47,473 --> 00:37:48,599
Mortal risk.
619
00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:50,059
But from what?
620
00:37:51,394 --> 00:37:54,647
People on the outside? The Game Masters?
621
00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:56,399
And on the inside, the players.
622
00:37:56,732 --> 00:37:58,693
The game, it gives you permission to...
623
00:37:59,026 --> 00:38:00,820
hurt or kill,
624
00:38:01,237 --> 00:38:05,533
themselves, their
enemies, their friends.
625
00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:07,243
Ben, Dilton, Ethel.
626
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:10,955
They all willingly drank the Fresh-Aid,
during their chalice quest.
627
00:38:11,038 --> 00:38:13,040
But was it murder or suicide?
628
00:38:13,124 --> 00:38:15,293
In the end, it's just death, Betty.
629
00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:21,382
Please,
promise me you won't investigate it.
630
00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:24,343
You know I can't do that, Mom.
631
00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:31,183
Someone from your club used the game
to murder Featherhead.
632
00:38:32,685 --> 00:38:35,313
Now my classmates are dying...
633
00:38:36,605 --> 00:38:39,066
and the whole school
is playing the game.
634
00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:43,779
I saw a creature in the woods.
635
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:48,034
I think the same one you saw
at the school.
636
00:38:48,492 --> 00:38:49,493
The Gargoyle King.
637
00:38:52,621 --> 00:38:56,584
What if it's the same person,
from the Midnight Club, then and now?
638
00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:00,087
I know you're scared, Mom.
639
00:39:00,463 --> 00:39:03,132
But we can't be silent anymore.
640
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,385
You see where that's gotten us.
641
00:39:06,844 --> 00:39:07,964
Just, please... swear to me.
642
00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:13,059
Swear to me that you won't play it.
643
00:39:15,102 --> 00:39:17,313
I won't play the game. I promise.
644
00:39:25,571 --> 00:39:26,405
Okay, well...
645
00:39:27,656 --> 00:39:29,742
A good detective always
vets her sources.
646
00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:13,994
Hiding in plain sight the whole time.
647
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,882
Juggie? Jug.
648
00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:32,012
You won't believe the story
my mom told me last night.
649
00:40:38,227 --> 00:40:39,061
Jug.
650
00:40:40,479 --> 00:40:41,439
What are you doing?
651
00:40:42,523 --> 00:40:43,441
Betty.
652
00:40:43,899 --> 00:40:46,527
It's all making sense.
All of this is becoming clear.
653
00:40:48,487 --> 00:40:50,364
The game, the Gargoyle King.
654
00:40:51,365 --> 00:40:54,452
I'm on Level three. It's only a
matter of time until I ascend.